Would you call the Nintendo switch easy to repair, with its sadly famous to derive from joysticksA glued battery, tiny and easy -to -damage ribbon cables, and the lack of official repair instructions and replacement parts?
Ifixit no longer thinks. After giving Nintendo’s pocket computer A pink welcome during its beginnings in 2017The online repair site indicates that the switch no longer lives up to 2025 standards – and therefore Ifixit reduces the switch’s repair score by half, from 8 out of 10 to 4 out of 10.
We never put Also Lots of stocks in repair scores, but the reasoning of Ifixit (In this blog article) has a meaning for me, as a person who opens each portable game system for which I test The penis. It is not Joy -Con Drift – it is that the industry has evolved.
In 2025, many portable play PCs are much easier to enter and repair, and the devices are starting to offer batteries that can be replaced without meticulously taking a fragile and dangerous daring object (the stuck battery) far from their frames. Certain iPhones even allow you to remove the adhesive from the battery With an electricity shock.
More, The steam bridge launched an wait That companies who really wish to offer repairable pocket computers will make their parts available publicly to purchase, perhaps even via Ifixit itself. This is not a place where Nintendo plays the ball – although the right -wing right -of -law law of New York can force Nintendo to provide parts for Switch 2 in the United States, as Ifixit points out in its blog article.
This is not the first time that Ifixit retroactively has dissociated a large gadget company after having thought better: Ifixit broke with Samsung in 2024 After Samsung is not to come with official parts and customers forced to buy batteries that have been pre -Alluces on telephone screens, among other restrictions. I wonder if they will exercise Similar pressure on logitech.
However, Ifixit does not dissist Nintendo almost as hard as Samsung.
“The original switch always has light points: its modular design philosophy for joysticks, replaceable (and extensible) storage, and above all the simple internal arrangement remain laudable. But compared to more recent devices which also offer standardized M.2 locations, double -available sides and parts and repair documentation, the switch shows its age, ”writes Ifixit.
